Exactly what were your expections from sorting the list? What did you expect the answer to look like? You can 'unlist' the list and then sort the elements:
> x[["A"]] <- 1:10 > x[["B"]] <- 4:12 > sort(unlist(x)) A1 A2 A3 A4 B1 A5 B2 A6 B3 A7 B4 A8 B5 A9 B6 A10 B7 B8 B9 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 12 > Is this what you want? On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:28 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to sort a list and the data is obiously not in the right format. > I am trying: > > x <- list() > x[["A"]] <- 1 > x[["B"]] <- 2 > > order(x) > > But am getting: > > Error in order(x) : unimplemented type 'list' in 'orderVector1' > > How should I change the list so that it can be sorted? What kinds of objects > (classes of objects) can be sorted? > > Thank you. > > Kevin > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.